Fatigue occurs in about 80% of the people aected with MS. It might significantly interfere with the patient’s ability to function at work or at home.

One of the first symptoms experienced by people who are eventually diagnosed with MS is numbness of the face, body or arms and legs.

This could be related to several factors including weakness, spasticity, loss of balance, sensory deficit and fatigue, however, these can be helped by certain medications and therapy (physical and assistive).

For many MS Patients, this could be the first symptom – the onset of blurred vision, poor contrast or colour vision. Some patients also experience pain on eye movement.

The stress of living with MS and other neurologic and immune changes could lead to significant depression, mood swings, irritation and episodes of uncontrollable laughing and crying. Further, several studies have shown that MS patients may get the severest form of depression– clinical depression.

This aects more than half the people aected with MS – it aects the patient’s ability to process incoming information, learn & remember new information, organize, solve problems and focus attention.

MS patients often experience a feeling of stiness along with a range of involuntary muscle spasms – while it can occur in any limb, it is most common in the legs.

The damage to the central nervous system might aect sexual responses, however, certain problems might be due to psychological factors.

MS could also lead to certain speech related problems including slurring and loss of volume. Also, it might occasionally cause stuttering and these symptoms could occur during periods of extreme fatigue.

Bladder dysfunction occurs in at least 80% of the people aected with MS. Further, MS could also lead to constipation in some people and loss of bowel control in some others. These symptoms can be managed through